s05e17 — Forever

It pisses me off Don, with Xander as a couple.

Sarah is wonderful in this episode, especially at the end)And in general, she is very beautiful this season))

Tell me, Angel had a ring that made a vampire invulnerable. And here he worries about the dawn
I didn't watch the TV series Angel, maybe it explained something happened to the ring?

Still, Buffy and Angel are such a good couple. When he arrived, I was nostalgic for the first seasons. Riley was nothing at all and they had a proper relationship. And no, not because he's not "bad" enough, on the contrary, I look at how Angel comforts Buffy and see how well he understands her. They still had love, not crazy passion.
With the same Spike, it's fun for me to look at it as a fanservice, but it's far from the same as Buffy and Angel. And Angel doesn't have the same attitude towards Buffy..
I understand why they broke up, in those conditions it would have been impossible to continue, it's just.. sorry
And it's a pity that since this is a fantastic series, they wouldn't have made some kind of feint and in the end the Angel became a man
Although it might be boring.

And yet, no matter what they say about Spike, but he really changed, and it wasn't the chip's fault, before he would never have sacrificed himself for the whim of people, but here it is clearly visible that he cares, he wants to help himself, and he liked Joyce.
An angel is like a piece of the past, and a pleasant reference to the first seasons. Their relationship with Buffy is really something special, but alas, it has already passed.

I just remembered about Angel, saying he should know about this, he should support Buffy in such a situation, no matter how they broke up. And then he appears😭

How annoying is the stupidity of the Xender.
He continues to act according to the scenario "I am not a din myself, I will not give it to another."

He is offended by any choice Buffy makes that does not fit into the framework of his normal life.
He approved of Riley only because he could identify with him. A kind of Marty Sue from wet fantasies. With a man, a military man.
Someone who, hypothetically, Xander himself could become and whom he could understand.
But he will never understand the love of Bafia and Angel, and of course Spike, who has changed.

The girl, of course, has been shown dumb before, but here is some kind of a whole new level. "I want to revive the "mother" with the help of the most dangerous spell, having no experience in magic, and Spike decided to help. Hmm, what's he doing? Damn, that's right! Buffy praises for that."

As a result, something was torn and nothing was allowed to happen, and Spike was also injured again. The desire for Dawn to be removed from the series was already unbearable.

The presence of Dawn in this and the previous series caused my fifth point to blaze.
Okay, she's a teenager and all that. Okay. But damn, it pisses me off that her very existence gives Buffy an extra headache. Buffy is in complete shock herself, she doesn't know what she's doing or how she's doing it. She needs support and support herself, and here she has to forget about herself and comfort her younger "sister". These claims from Dawn, they say, you don't cry, you don't care about mom, you plan something, you decide something. Damn, yes, Buffy has to decide something. Because it's necessary. This Don can allow his sister to sit on her neck and dangle her legs. No one demands anything from her, everyone is jumping around her. And Buffy...Well, she's strong, she can handle it... Strong, yes, but not iron.

In short, the only useful thing Dawn did was destroy the photo. I was afraid Buffy would have to deal with this shit on her own.

Sad episode again, give Buffy-Spike more!

What a disgusting, unbearable woman this Dawn is! The series would be better without her! I'm fucked up

Xander is such a nasty type, it's not for nothing that I hate him from the first episode…

It's terrible that Dawn fell on Buffy at such a moment. it's terribly unfair, I don't see Buffy's beloved sister in her, just an annoying teenager. I don't feel any sympathy for this character, she's out of place at all, so it's just another task for Buffy

Poor Buffy 💔

And it's a pity for Spike, they're always chasing him

Pisses Don off. It feels like she's forgotten that Joyce isn't really her mother. He demands to revive her, as if he even has the right to do so. And Buffy has to support Dawn all the time, even though Buffy's grief happened.
The whole season, it feels like she's taking away some of Buffy's support. He takes over everything. Incredibly annoying.

Ben damn God, why couldn't he even finish off some defenseless monster?! By the way, why doesn't he get fucked up like Gloria without brain power, like she eats for the two of them?

I just thought that an Angel might appear and here he is) It's even nice that they periodically insert him, not that he just left for himself and lives somewhere, but as if he was looking after her)

Well, they also couldn't properly explain why it was impossible to resurrect the dead from their own experience (Willow also supported it)?! "Because it's bad" - cool! A weighty argument for a heartbroken teenage girl

This big-nosed demon assistant of the Serene Highness seems to me very charismatic)) he seems to be quite nasty, but at the same time charming 🫣

Watching this episode always brings up associations with the "Pet Cemetery")

And I like the story with Dawn, she's actually a reflection of what Buffy was like before she became a slayer. Yes, she's acting stupidly and thoughtlessly, but she's only 14, and in fact she's only been living in this world for six months and is facing real life and grief for the first time.
It's a pity that Buffy has had so much to do, she's had so much responsibility since she was young, but now she needs to be truly grown up. It's a good scene at the end, Buffy and Dawn became real sisters at that moment.